Word that the National Park Service's maintenance backlog is nearly $22 billion, whereas three years ago it was pegged at roughly $13 billion, raises questions of how it came to be and how Congress will react less than two years removed from passing legislation billed as cutting the backlog in half in five years.

The Everglades Trust has announced that Anna Upton, Esq., takes over Monday as its new CEO. She arrives at that job from the Everglades Foundation, where she served as general counsel and vice president of government affairs.

Abandoned mines, wildlife habitat, recreation, and other projects across the National Park System should benefit from millions of dollars the Biden adminstration has released through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

In a move likely to bring more attention to the nation's Civil Rights history, President Biden on Thursday signed legislation that redesignates the Brown v. Board of Educaton National Historic Site as a "national historical park," and adds properties under that umbrella.